Happy Juneteenth!
Today in History:
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved by the U.S. Senate
- In 1865, Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over, and that all remaining slaves in Texas were free — an event celebrated to this day as “Juneteenth.”
- In 1910, the first-ever [American] Father’s Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington. (The idea for the observance is credited to Sonora Louise Smart Dodd)
- In 1953, Julius Rosenberg, 35, and his wife, Ethel, 37, convicted of conspiring to pass U.S. atomic secrets to the Soviet Union, were executed at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York.
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Happy Juneteenth. I wish it could be a happier one, but that won’t happen in an America where police are given such deference.
Here’s another article on Juneteenth.
You want proper patriotism, this is it. Celebrating more liberty, and hoping for even more still. Also a fitting commemoration of the Civil War, because as the old saw goes:
- First, you learn the Civil War was about slavery.
- Then, you learn it had many causes.
- Finally, you learn the Civil War was about slavery.
